diff --git a/.env.tpl b/.env.tpl
index 07db6275..ff483e97 100644
--- a/.env.tpl
+++ b/.env.tpl
@@ -108,14 +108,14 @@ NOPAQUE_ADMIN=
 #       Swarm nodes
 # NOPAQUE_DATA_DIR=
 
-# CHOOSE ONE: False, True
-# DEFAULT: True
-# NOPAQUE_DAEMON_ENABLED=
-
 # NOTE: Get these from the nopaque development team
 NOPAQUE_DOCKER_REGISTRY_USERNAME=
 NOPAQUE_DOCKER_REGISTRY_PASSWORD=
 
+# CHOOSE ONE: False, True
+# DEFAULT: True
+# NOPAQUE_IS_PRIMARY_INSTANCE=
+
 # transport://[userid:password]@hostname[:port]/[virtual_host]
 NOPAQUE_SOCKETIO_MESSAGE_QUEUE_URI=
 
diff --git a/app/corpora/routes.py b/app/corpora/routes.py
index b6bf2d01..3a3c76e3 100644
--- a/app/corpora/routes.py
+++ b/app/corpora/routes.py
@@ -125,8 +125,6 @@ def import_corpus():
                 db.session.add(corpus_file)
                 db.session.flush(objects=[corpus_file])
                 db.session.refresh(corpus)
-                current_app.logger.warning(vrt_file)
-                current_app.logger.warning(corpus_file.path)
                 try:
                     shutil.copy2(vrt_file, corpus_file.path)
                 except Exception as e:
diff --git a/boot.sh b/boot.sh
index 6cd26836..68765e62 100755
--- a/boot.sh
+++ b/boot.sh
@@ -1,26 +1,21 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 source venv/bin/activate
 if [[ "${#}" -eq 0 ]]; then
-    while true; do
-        echo "INFO  Run deployment tasks..."
-        flask deploy
-        if [[ "${?}" == "0" ]]; then
-            break
-        fi
-        echo "WARNING  ...Failed, retrying in 5 secs..."
-        sleep 5
-    done
-    if [[ "${NOPAQUE_DAEMON_ENABLED:-True}" == "True" ]]; then
+    if [[ "${NOPAQUE_IS_PRIMARY_INSTANCE:-True}" == "True" ]]; then
+        while true; do
+            echo "INFO  Run deployment tasks..."
+            flask deploy
+            if [[ "${?}" == "0" ]]; then
+                break
+            fi
+            echo "WARNING  ...Failed, retrying in 5 secs..."
+            sleep 5
+        done
         echo "INFO  Start nopaque daemon..."
         flask daemon run &
     fi
     echo "INFO  Start nopaque..."
-    gunicorn \
-      --error-logfile - \
-      $([ "${ENABLE_GUNICORN_RELOAD:-False}" == "True" ] && echo "--reload") \
-      --worker-class eventlet \
-      -b :5000 \
-      -w 1 nopaque:app
+    python nopaque.py
 elif [[ "${1}" == "flask" ]]; then
     exec ${@:1}
 else
diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index 07ec1d78..d8d12fa7 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ class Config:
 
     ''' # nopaque # '''
     NOPAQUE_ADMIN = os.environ.get('NOPAQUE_ADMIN')
-    NOPAQUE_DAEMON_ENABLED = \
-        os.environ.get('NOPAQUE_DAEMON_ENABLED', 'true').lower() == 'true'
+    NOPAQUE_IS_PRIMARY_INSTANCE = \
+        os.environ.get('NOPAQUE_IS_PRIMARY_INSTANCE', 'true').lower() == 'true'
     NOPAQUE_DATA_DIR = \
         os.path.abspath(os.environ.get('NOPAQUE_DATA_DIR', '/mnt/nopaque'))
     NOPAQUE_DOCKER_REGISTRY = 'gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de:4567'
diff --git a/docker-compose.development.yml b/docker-compose.development.yml
index 7192dd78..564eae38 100644
--- a/docker-compose.development.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.development.yml
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ version: "3.5"
 
 services:
   nopaque:
-    environment:
-      - ENABLE_GUNICORN_RELOAD=True
     ports:
       - "5000:5000"
     volumes:
diff --git a/docker-compose.scale.yml b/docker-compose.scale.yml
index f13b3550..bc9154fc 100644
--- a/docker-compose.scale.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.scale.yml
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ version: "3.5"
 services:
   nopaque:
     environment:
-      - NOPAQUE_DAEMON_ENABLED=False
+      - NOPAQUE_IS_PRIMARY_INSTANCE=False
diff --git a/nopaque.py b/nopaque.py
index 0f2d0d2a..8eb4d3bb 100644
--- a/nopaque.py
+++ b/nopaque.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import eventlet
 eventlet.monkey_patch()
 
-from app import db, cli, create_app  # noqa
+from app import db, cli, create_app, socketio  # noqa
 from app.models import (
     Corpus,
     CorpusFile,
@@ -46,3 +46,11 @@ def make_shell_context() -> Dict[str, Any]:
         'TranskribusHTRModel': TranskribusHTRModel,
         'User': User
     }
+
+
+def main():
+    socketio.run(app, host='0.0.0.0')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 038611ce..60a4aaf0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ Flask-RESTX
 Flask-SocketIO~=5.1
 Flask-SQLAlchemy
 Flask-WTF
-gunicorn
 hiredis
 jsonschema
 MarkupSafe==2.0.1